Steroid Nation (TM) is an online journal looking at the use of anabolic steroids (and performance enhancing drugs PEDs, HGH, doping) in sports, youth, and society. By Gary Gaffney, M.D., from the University of Iowa, College of Medicine.

09/23/2008

One wonders if the high demands of elite race-walking haven't gone too far. Like the Tour de France, race walkers are asked to endure physical pain and stress that leave them exhausted, broken and forever scarred from the incredible battles on the walk course. So take this story in stride.

It must be because those Russians doped with super-PED, EPO. This just-released banned list from the Guardian includes the world record holder Sergei Morozov, and the prior WR holder Vladimir Kanaikin. (there was pre-Olympic talk about the doped up walkers and possible Olympic taint)

MOSCOW, Sept 23 (Reuters) - Five leading Russian race
walkers, including a world record holder, have been banned for
doping, the Russian athletics federation (RAF) said on Tuesday.

Sergei Morozov, who holds the world record in the 20km walk,
Vladimir Kanaikin, Viktor Burayev, Alexei Voevodin and Igor
Yerokhin were banned for two years each after testing positive
for EPO.

"They all had failed a test for EPO and after a hearing by
our federation's anti-doping board on Sept. 9, each of the five
athletes was banned for two years," RAF secretary general
Vladimir Usachyov was quoted as saying by the All Sport news
agency.

(Reporting by Gennady Fyodorov; editing by Pritha Sarkar)

It will be difficult for Morozov to just walk away from the world record...You can walk but you can't hide if you dope.